The Story of MindFreedom Free Live Internet Radio

Since June 2006, with some interruption for improvement, MindFreedom Radio Show has supported a nonviolent revolution in the mental health system. Leaders, authors, activists, mental health professionals, psychiatric survivors and others who are actively changing and challenging the current mental health system have been featured in live interviews. Listeners have called in from around the world.

The MindFreedom Web Radio Show is hosted
by
psychiatric rights activist David Oaks, director of MindFreedom. David
also experienced the mental health system as a youth when he was
institutionalized five times and diagnosed
"schizophrenic." For a brief bio about David click here.

The first two years, The
Progressive Radio Network produced the show along with several others
from its studio in New York City. PRN was founded by radio personality
and health activist leader Gary Null.

You'll hear an interview
about changing the system of care for mental and emotional well being.

Shows have explored the
history of the psychiatric survivor movement, innovative alternatives
to the conventional mental health system, how psychiatric survivors
and concerned mental health professionals are working together on human
rights campaigns, and more.

Regular features include updates about breaking stories and networking announcements about successful activism and alternatives.

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We are MFI

Kris Yates

Kris experienced forced electroshock while locked up in a psychiatric institution in India. Kris became an MFI leader, and is shown here at a Highlander strategy conference. A powerful story teller from a poor Appalachian background, Kris obtained her master's degree and became accredited as a family counselor in California. Her practice specializes in nondrug voluntary and humane alternatives for people labeled with psychiatric disabilities. (Photo by Tom Olin.)